TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-epstein-trump-censorship-ice-b2908309.html

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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 220 pts · 211d (33 replies)

Epstein files

Trump is a pedophile

Trump and Epstein were best friends after Epstein opened the island

Trump was convicted of raping someone in civil court

annoyed_onion@lemmy.world · 131 pts · 211d (24 replies)

Seems like the fediverse works fine 👍

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 69 pts · 211d (12 replies)

Tiananmen Square massacre.

Winnie the Pooh.

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 211d (11 replies)

All I see is ������� ������ ������ and ����� ��� ����

davepleasebehave@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 211d (9 replies)

Interesting safety feature about the fedverse is that it will also protect your password.

For example, here is mine: �� �����

It looks fine to me.

voodooattack@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 211d (7 replies)

Mine is hunter2

See? It works

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler And I'm old af. I miss you bash.org! :::

4z01235@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 211d (1 reply)

This is how I learn bash.org is no more...

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 211d

Snapshots are still accessible on the Wayback machine, and I think a ton of snippets are available as an archive of text files too!

I'm bummed it's gone.

PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 4 pts · 209d

I left my job today. I couldn't work for that man after what he said to me.
what did he say?
your fired

Simpler times...

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 211d

Mine is 1,2,3,4,5.

HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 210d (2 replies)

Mine is 1234, which also happens to be my luggage combo.

evidences@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 210d

I was listening to a podcast talking about the 2012 LinkedIn hack and after it was found out 750,000 people used 123456 as their password, I'm tempted to believe you.

freedom@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 211d

If you press Alt-F4 it lets you see account emails.

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 3 pts · 211d

Good. Thanks for helping me test this. Don't worry about what I wrote, comrade.

tomiant@piefed.social · 14 pts · 211d (8 replies)

Yeah, and we have like 0.07% of their reach.

You can fool some people some time, you can fool some people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

Unfortunately, you don't have to fool all the people all the time, 99.93% of the people most of the time will do just fine. Shit, 51% is plenty enough.

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 211d (4 replies)

We like to shit on Tik Tok, but you're right that their reach is absolutely massive. Recently when Democrats were writing op eds and taking out ads saying that troops should ignore illegal orders, a high ranking member of the military (I forget who) commented that the messaging was ineffective because troops almost universally get their "news" through Tik Tok.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 211d (1 reply)

troops almost universally get their "news" through Tik Tok.

One finger to swipe leaves a hand free for munching crayons.

tomiant@piefed.social · 6 pts · 211d

Proving the point perfectly. They aren't paid to think. They're paid to follow orders.

When the time comes, they will not hesitate to fire upon US civilians, and those who do will be shot alongside them.

tomiant@piefed.social · 10 pts · 211d (1 reply)

Soldiers will obey orders. That's what they do.

My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Kent State, Bonus Army March.

Soldiers aren't trained to be moral philosophers, they're paid to do what they're told

kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 211d

Be all you're told to be.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 211d (1 reply)

Oh, they'll get around to shanking lemmy eventually. We should enjoy it while it lasts.

tomiant@piefed.social · 4 pts · 211d

I ain't enjoying shit of this, I just consider it one of the last spaces of the free exchange of ideas and information left. I heard BlueSky is already on the chopping block. Like healthy cells surrounded by metastases, one by one they get consumed.

But maybe I wax too dramatic when I'm tired and drunk, and the morning is young as the old night dies. I can go on, et cetera, alas, and so forth. Hark. Would you render yonder and caress my Sony Trinitron screen of vint most fine? My cask thumps hollow!

DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 209d

On politics with a 65% turnout election, you need more than 32.5%

This why 40% approval is enough to win. Specially if your rival is purist and doesn’t vote for many reasons.

stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 211d (1 reply)

It does? I didn't see it can someone write it two or three more times just to be sure?

tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 211d
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Bruncvik@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 211d

Trump is a pedophile

Pedonald

Corngood@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 211d (3 replies)

Why did you post a bunch of asterixes?

prex@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 211d (2 replies)

Hey - how did they know my password?

kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 211d

8 asterisks then Aa1! is my password too. It might be we all use the same password.

tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 211d

Fuck.

hector@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 211d

Both were blackmailers, their wonderful secret. That's why they were such enigmas. But epstein was connected to a foreign intelligence agency, maybe the president was too, even that far back.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 209d (1 reply)

The media actively whitewashes all of this. What other convicted felon (rapist) would get a pass like this?

It's absolutely "hilarious" when NPR calls him "President Trump" and not "convicted felon Trump" or "rapist Trump". NPR is supposedly some liberal bastion of honesty, etc. But they're absolute bootlicking enablers.

Liberalism <---> Fascism.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 209d

Take a look at the public NPR board at the bottom. I just clicked one executive and here is a paragraph on her:

Most recently, Levene was President of the National Media Group at Meredith Corporation, where she oversaw the company's 40+ iconic brands including PEOPLE, Allrecipes, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, TRAVEL&LEISURE, REAL SIMPLE and Magnolia Journal. She joined the company in 2019 as Chief Strategy Officer. Later that year, she was named Chief Digital Officer, responsible for the digital P&L of the company's iconic brands. In late 2020, she was named President of Meredith's National Media Group adding the print and licensing businesses to her management portfolio and making history as the company's first female Corporate Officer. As President, she led the National Media Group through a period of unprecedented digital expansion, revenue growth and diversification, and strategic application of first-party data and consumer insights. Prior to Meredith's sale to IAC's DotDash in December 2021, the National Media Group reached nearly 190 million unduplicated American consumers every month across digital, print, social platforms, video, audio and connected home assistants.

NPR is who the board is. They're trying to hide it a little more behind links and I don't have time to go through everyone. I bet there are a shit ton of corporations on there like the last time I checked in 2024.

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/182676957/npr-board-of-directors

delial@lemmy.sdf.org · 78 pts · 211d (1 reply)

Worth noting is that among the investors loyal to Trump is Larry Ellison, renowned massive turd of a human being. Just totally coincidentally, his festering dingleberry of a son David Ellison is the person that installed the pro-genocide propagandist Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief at CBS.

Unrelated: Do you ever wonder how tender billionaire flesh is?

tomiant@piefed.social · 13 pts · 211d

Unrelated: Do you ever wonder how tender billionaire flesh is?

No I don't. I just like the sound it makes when it slices.

twelvety@fedia.io · 58 pts · 211d (4 replies)

Meanwhile, we in Europe have American Billionaires constantly attacking any government or legal body that enforces their own national laws, by threatening to sue and throwing childish insults for suppressing free speech.

Many of us haven't ever had legal freedom of speech in our constitutions, but the reality is we have a lot more than Americans right now.

minorkeys@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 211d

It worked in America, so....

hector@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 211d (1 reply)

Well the companies that own social media have a right to moderate as they see fit, and the government has a right to force them to regulate speech behind the scenes. So, freedom of speech means dick online. I mean elsewhere, present company excluded. Reddit is a world better than the rest of them but they're fucked too and clearly getting worse, as any company going public will be, even without fascists seizing absolute power and nothing left to stop them.

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 211d

The government doesn't have the right to regulate free speech behind the scenes. It has the ability to, but it is considered a violation of free speech for them to do this. Not that anyone cares.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 209d

Reverse colonizers.

reddig33@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 211d (6 replies)

Better get used to it. The oligarchs are swallowing up all the media companies in the US.

tomiant@piefed.social · 11 pts · 211d (3 replies)

They're actually already basically done, since like a couple of months ago or so. It's kind of pretty very extremely fucked up!

Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 211d (2 replies)

MS Now/MSN seems to have honest reporting (at least some).

sobchak@programming.dev · 5 pts · 211d

They are establishment Dem propaganda. I've noticed recent instances where they seem to be somewhat complicit or cagey with their language regarding all the fucked up shit that's been going on. I.e. using language like "some people argue," instead of plainly stating obviously illegal or fucked up shit. Their rebranding to MS Now was specifically to distance its brand from be a "resistance brand," according to the CEO.

tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 211d

MSN is owned and operated by Microsoft Corporation.

MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), is a cable news channel owned by Versant Media Group.

Versant Media Group is an independent publicly traded company, after they spun off from Comcast.

Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts and his family retain significant share holder control.

He's a billionaire that paid tons of money to both parties (let's pause and think about this for a moment because as obvious as it is to all of us, we tend to forget that it is not normal to live in a two party state no more than it is living in a one party state), leaning mostly republican.

So, I guess, as billionaires go, he's not the worst offender. But, as billionaires go, he will always do what is financially expedient- that's why any rich person pays both sides, so that regardless who comes out on top YoY, they win.

Eldritch@piefed.world · 8 pts · 211d

They've been gone a while sadly, most haven't noticed.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 209d

^ Is this a message from 1776?

Paragone@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 211d

Freedum!!

/s

Maverick604@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 211d (2 replies)

Something about America being the home of free speech… lol

purplestar@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 211d

They practice something called 'Freedom From Speech', as in they're freed up by not having to say anything.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 209d

Why should everybody get speech for free when the Ellisons have to pay so much for it? \s

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 28 pts · 211d (3 replies)

They've said publicly they intend to turn it into a MAGA-first platform. And now people are surprised?

Kalon@feddit.online · 10 pts · 211d (2 replies)

and it should die just as X Tawtter should.

bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d

and so many called leftists cant even shake the twitter monkey off their back. fuck anyone still using that cp site.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 209d

Or maybe don't let billionaire fascists make everything fascist?

Fucking libs supported this all the way.

Liberalism <---> Fascism.

hector@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 211d (4 replies)

What a joke. I hope tik tok crashes and burns.

They did all of that, because Israel. Because tik tok declined to rig moderation in favor of Israel. They care more about that country than our own. Now what were we talking about, epstein, ahem. Completely unrelated I'm sure, except for all of the child fucking blackmail Israel holds, that might have something to do with it now that you mention it.

tomiant@piefed.social · 13 pts · 211d

It's literally the only thing I could imagine being bad enough to go to these lengths over. The Maxwell connection with her father and Mossad is the inflamed fucking toenail they are trying to hush up to hide the gangrene.

It's got to be so fucking bad, like, I am beginning to think that the pedophilia isn't the worst part, more like the tip of the iceberg, and that whatever that shit would uncover would spell the fall of nations, civilization or straight up nuclear war.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 211d

I wonder if trump blowing bubbha can possibly be real. Can you imagine. That would do it, if it came out.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 209d (1 reply)

I hope tik tok crashes and burns. They did all of that, because Israel.

I hope the zionists regime crashes and burns. TikTok is just another victim. It's easy and socially acceptable to attack your fellow victims, but there's nothing to be gained by it.

hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 209d

Tik tok is the enemy now.

whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · 23 pts · 211d (4 replies)

Anyone in the US with TikTok can you confirm you can’t type it?

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 211d (2 replies)

Not me but apparently they've confirmed they're looking into this "glitch".

whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · 19 pts · 211d (1 reply)

Im sure it’s a huge priority…… . .

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 211d

I'm sure it's a glitch ...

kaitco@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 211d

I’ve just tried it. I can type these things and do searches, view the videos, whatever.

I will note, however, that my TikTok settings are very customized, even being on iOS. I’ve gone through every single setting, both within the app and within the iOS settings, and I’ve turned off anything and everything that can be turned off. TikTok sees virtually nothing. So, maybe I’m not blocked because all TikTok knows is that I’ve got an iPhone, I may or may not be in the US (I keep on VPN), and that I’m Trekkie who enjoys ASMR videos at night, but that’s about it.

Mrkawfee@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 209d (1 reply)

Israel fanatic Larry Ellison took control of TikTok to ensure no one can say anything bad about the genocidal colony or it's neocon agents in the American regime

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 211d (5 replies)

Thus driving the proliferation of alternative platforms, encryption, etc. They can’t put the toothpaste back in the bottle.

…”bottle”? Is it “bottle”? I’ve never bought toothpaste in a bottle, it always comes in a squeezie pouch nozzle thing…

J92@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 211d (1 reply)

Tube.

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 202d

In my defense I was extremely high when I typed that comment. It’s not that much of a defense because I’m usually moderately to pretty high.

87Six@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 211d (1 reply)

Thus driving the proliferation of alternative platforms, encryption, etc.

I really don't think the average tiktoker knows most of these words

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 211d

Eventually everyone will know them

spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 211d

I though the saying was that you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 17 pts · 211d (3 replies)

lofi@piefed.social · 8 pts · 211d (2 replies)

Would

tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 211d (1 reply)

A bit too inflatable-looking for me, but you do you.

bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 209d

Inflatable? Come on. There's is nothing "inflatable" about her. That is clearly a very high-end silicone model. Joe Rogan, a multi-millionaire, would own nothing less.

E_coli42@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 211d

Wish they'd move to the Fediverse instead of people uninstalling TikTok to install some other app that could potentially change its algorithm or funding at any time.

itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 209d (1 reply)

Didn't expect that Chinese TikTok was more democratic than American TikTok. This was unexpected plot twist.

invictvs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 208d

Would Chinese TikTok allow anti-CCP content? I genuinely asking. If it does then yes, we can say it's more democratic. If you mean that the "Chinese" TikTok allows anti-ICE and anti-MAGA/Trump content then this is just a foreign country that has nothing to loose from this, which is not necessarily "democratic", it's just that they probably have something to gain from it.

aesthelete@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 210d

Enshittification alternative phase 3: let the government goons run your platform.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 209d

Once Trump gets involved in something you know that eventually we're going to find out it's even more nefarious bullshit. We must clean and disinfect the huge stain left after he enters the clearing at the end of his path.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 209d (1 reply)

THAT'S CENSORSHIP

Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 209d

No no it's freedom.

Kalon@feddit.online · 7 pts · 211d

I've only come across loops.video today. I'm not really the target demographic, but it seems like it should be spammed as an option for those who would normally like to brain rot on Tic Tok.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 209d (1 reply)

This and zionism were the whole point of the attack on TikTok that the libs fully supported.

Now the libs want to attack "social media" in general.

zuch0698o@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d

Social media is a cancer

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 211d

“It’s time to investigate,” he wrote in a post to X on Monday night. “I am launching a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring Trump-critical content.”

What are "things I'd rather be said by my opponent rather than my ally" for 500?

spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 209d

Who the hell is still on Tiktok? Those poor bastards had a year to jump ship.

emmy67@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 211d

It wasn't just the US. I'm outside and I couldn't write the word in DMs either.

tomiant@piefed.social · 5 pts · 211d (4 replies)

Tik Tok is a way bigger threat to democracy than ICE.

Gee I wonder why the USA bought it.

hector@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 211d (3 replies)

Idk, the federal agency with 200 billion in the bank I think it a greater threat, seeing as tik tok is just one social media company. They all steal our data too, and sell it, including to the chinese the entire thing was bullshit. Once again it was because of Israel criticism being allowed, they didn't falsely claim they were terrorist sympathizing by acknowledging what was going on over there.

Israel first, to such a degree it makes one wonder why they care so much, until you remember epstein was a honeypot for israel's intelligence agency to get blackmail on US politicians, and the UK. And businessman, the ivy league in general, swells. They've a critical mass. And they could have more than just child fucking blackmail too.

tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 211d (2 replies)

My point is that with control of TikTok, they can control enough of the voting population to be set forever (media is like, wow we don't understand why young men have suddenly started skewing right wing hard), granting them the capacity to give as many billions they want to their private army. I legitimately think that 2024 was the last time we will have come to a semblance of a fair election- which I believe it wasn't either way. They needed to win that one, the last one, every one after this will be "free and fair" in the Russian or North Korean sense of "free and fair". I mean they are blatantly open about it, on every level, no need to even go into the fingerprints they left all over, or the times they literally were caught or did it anyway- 2000 elections being settled by the SC, voter record purges, buying votes, redistricting and gerrymandering, bomb threats to polling stations, mail in ballots banned, that time they were literally investigated by the FBI in Georgia and destroyed the servers, that whistleblower in charge of the voting machines getting assassinated, it just goes on and on and on...

On your second point, I'm with you, I answered one of your other comments, but it's like... You have to tread lightly because you don't want to give the nazis free ammo with that shit. I don't know what to say, the situation is beyond unbelievably fucked up, and I genuinely don't see how it can ever return to normality.

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 211d

Our elections have always been corrupted to one degree or another. The concept of a popularity contest where the person that makes the most money generally wins is complete bullshit for a democracy.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 209d

2024 was the last time we will have come to a semblance of a fair election

USA has never had a fair election. It's never had a fair election system. It's just some scheme concocted by literal enslavers so they can maintain their disgusting privilege.

Strider@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 211d (2 replies)

What no one mentioned so far: going these lengths literally confirms this us is a weak spot.

tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 211d

Well, weak spot removed for a majority of the voting public. This is going to be so fucking bad...

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 209d

TikTok was a weak spot for the zionist majority, thus it's destruction has bipartisan support.

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 211d (8 replies)

Bullshit on my end. Just checked another person's ability to search and see Epstein videos on TikTok. Didn't see any censorship there.

charles@social.charles.wiki · 29 pts · 211d (6 replies)

It might be algorithmic targeting. Or AB testing. We live in a world where no one sees the same site anymore.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 211d (5 replies)

man, if people only knew how deep that rabbithole was. At a company I worked at we'd sell ad buckets based not only who people were now, but who our models said they were probably likely to be in the future. It was a goldmine. CTR rate was extraordinary.

ptu@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 211d (3 replies)

That’s insane, do you know what data it was trained on?

kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 211d (2 replies)

I cant say without losing a lot of anonymity, sorry.

ptu@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 210d (1 reply)

That’s understandable. Did you ever try to see your own future?

kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 209d
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bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 209d

I don't doubt that it's a gold mine. But that's because all tech corporations are ponzi schemes pumping the AI scam as quickly as possible before it deflates. The chatbot at your job really isn't doing what they say it is.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 3 pts · 211d

post links.

Shadow posts have been a thing since twitter.

GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 209d
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NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 2 pts · 211d (1 reply)

Thanks Biden!

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 209d

Yeah the attack on TikTok is a bipartisan (aka zionist) endeavour.

khanh@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 211d

Bruh. It hasn't even been a week and bullshit like this happens.

bob@unresigned-fruticose-wallace.ngrok-free.dev · 1 pts · 210d
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GaryGhost@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 209d

This country sucks. Get me out of this shithole country, I wish i was smart enough to learn mandarin

venusaur@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 211d (4 replies)

If they don’t wanna sell to US, then they gotta conform to stay in market.

EDIT: I don’t agree with this. Just the facts. But please continue to use this comment to express disapproval.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 211d (1 reply)

The sale happened last week...

But don't let that get in the way of your opinions

venusaur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 211d

Ah well then it’s clear what’s happening

hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 211d (1 reply)

They have to betray freedom of speech to get in the US market? That's not how it's supposed to work here.

venusaur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 211d

But that’s the reality of it. They were trying to force them to sell or ban them. Sounds like they’re controlled in US by a mostly American company now anyways.